TMS Collab – friendship
Collab topic for this month: Share some of your opinions on the concept of friendship.
What kind of people do you surround yourself with as your friends? Do you find yourself more comfortable with people your own age, or does that matter? Do you like to surround yourself with lots of people, or do you like to have a smaller, more tight-knit group around?
How easy or difficult is it for you to meet new people and make new friends? Is it easier or harder to make friends using the Internet, and what kind of positive effect has meeting friends online had on your life? What are the greatest kindnesses a friend has shown to you?”
I’ve been trying to write this one all month. I have scattered ideas about friendship, and so many friends too. I guess I’ll have to answer each question one at a time.
I surround myself with all kinds of people. All different kinds, even ones who would get into arguments or even fistfights if they were all in the same room. 
Each person I consider a friend has some small or big thing in common with me.
Age doesn’t matter to me at all. When I find something in common with someone, they are an Instant Friend, no matter what their age. I have friends that are 3 and friends that are in their 80’s. I’m happy to see and talk to all of them.
I have a lot of friends, and I am a people person, but at the same time I have only a very few close friends. People that I can talk to about almost anything. I guess you could say that a lot of my friends are each there to fill a specific role for me, to help nurture a specific aspect of myself. The close friends relate to me (and I to them) on many, many levels. And they put up with me.
It is terribly easy for me to make new friends. I make friends when I run errands even. Being online has been so great for me, as it really helps when I have stuck myself inside and need some people contact. Especially when we first moved here, I hardly had anywhere to go to actually meet people. There’s a lot of online people I would love to meet, and the couple people I have met have been wonderful experiences. It adds so much, like another dimension to the relationship.
The greatest kindnesses my friends have ever shown me is to put up with me when I am being a boneheaded flake. I sometimes put my foot in my mouth and say hurtful things without thinking. I also neglect some of my friends by not paying them much attention some days.
My final thought is the stuff that has been giving tme the most problems, just by trying to figure out the best way to express it. I guess I like my friendships to be very fluid. I don’t like them to end, because you can’t really pick them up again. You never know who you’ll run into again, and making enemies is not the way to do it either. Eh, I dunno how else to explain it. It doesn’t bother me too much if I don’t hear from some freinds for awhile. I like to just pick up where we left off. I don’t like over-analyzing What Went Wrong or whatever… well, only with Ron, but I digress. 
Um, I guess if you are reading this, then I consider you a friend.
One Response to “TMS Collab – friendship”
I’m glad I’m one of your friends, (((little buddy)))!